PRESENTED BY MELANIE TAIT AND GRETCHEN MILLER,
SATURDAY AT 3.05 PM, REPEATED 9.05 PM THURSDAY.
Program details:
August
2nd Jamaican Poetry Part 1 celebrating the rich culture of Jamaican poetry from Claude McKay to Louise Bennett and Lillian Allen.
9th Jamaican Poetry Part 2 post-independence Jamaican poetry.
16th Earth Hour a conversation and reading with David Malouf, recorded live at Adelaide Writers Week.
23rd Tales of a Severed Head the story of Scheherazade, re-told by Moroccan poet and feminist, Rachida Madani.
30th The Blues an anthology of poetry and music dedicated to this great American form.
September
11th Counting the Rafts selected works by poet and playwright Jack Hibberd.*
* No Saturday broadcast due to Brisbane Writers Festival special.
13th Round the Nation a selection from the latest crop of Australian poetry publications.
20th Night Writing a feature on this new collection by Tasmanian poet Kathryn Lomer.
27th Necessity Barry Hill's poems about the necessities of life, both collective and individual.
October
4th Anne Sexton the work one of the first and greatest of the American confessional poets, in her own voice.
11th Penglipur lara: storyteller the poetry, rap and spoken word performance of National Poetry Slam winner, Omar Musa.
18th Maya Angelou the last interview and readings by the late, great, Maya Angelou.
25th Robert Adamson the poet recorded in conversation with Nicholas Jose.
For further details please contact the producers of Poetica
Mike Ladd (08) 8343 4928 Justine Sloane-Lees (03) 9626 1656
Or visit our website at: http://abc.net.au/radionational/programs/poetica/
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